@altsanabo Another project. Would be fascinating to incorporate elements into Complice (and I think it'd be false to say there's zero of this) but that's not the main thing. This video kinda points at it: youtube.com/watch?v=Ub4_kr…
July 2022
Replying to @aaron_etc
@aaron_etc yeah this is not a thing I grew up in a small town (~1400) & "everyone knows everyone" really does change everything. story I heard, that I think actually happened: 👮: "And what was this lawnmower thief wearing?" 🤔: "Uhh… that ugly sweater his grandma knit him for christmas"
I have nebulous travel plans: eurail late July, then fly to Bali ~Aug4 I'm realizing that I can fly out of almost any city in Europe, and save $$$ depending on where. Also eg FRA→[2 days in Singapore]→DPS is $800 where FRA→DPS is $1200. Is there a tool for searching this?
@AskYatharth seems legit curious what problem in particular you anticipate
@xriskology I mean he's doing quite a lot about climate change too 🤨 but also "we can all get behind" stopping climate change? it's pretty damn political/polarized, tho less outside US meanwhile "stopping" anything isn't really exciting enough as a universal rallying flag
there are no fundamental obligations only situational obligations
if you think something is a good idea but you're not doing it part of you disagrees with "it's a good idea"
could be on many levels: - the whole project is bad - this approach won't work - I wish someone else would do it and I could ignore it
video that is kind of about this: youtube.com/watch?v=Tr4exO…
👏so👏true👏
Retweeted @stephlepp
Anything can be weaponized, including the notion that anything can be weaponized.
Replying to @JoannaGubman
@JoannaGubman @SFFDPIO Corona heights fire
Retweeted @AskYatharth
so i had an implicit model that i had to *make* people like me didn’t realise you can *let them*
Retweeted @diviacaroline
“If the places where the light falls are not the places you are meant to go toward, or if the light is uniform, the envi…
interesting thread
@visakanv That is utterly absurd and anyone who thinks it's a good strategy should retire from telling anybody what to do and go read some books for a year. "The enemy is trying to take something, and they've stolen 0.0000001% of it!" 😡 "Welp, better just hand it all over" 🤷♀️
The clearest distillation I've yet read of one part of why EA is structurally confused. (It's also dehumanizing in other ways, and has other issues.) [I say this as someone who was also EA for a bit and still loves ambitious passionate precision towards a better world!]
@visakanv I read "wife" for half a second 😳 There's always something to be grateful for I guess.
@DRMacIver Sailors delight Sailors take warning
@elctmque Who?
@thewiseturtle @hunchandblunder Sure but are you strategically seeking what you need?
@piva_jonas biological imperatives?
@JimmyRis I thought skiplagged was only if you have no checked bags. Hmm....
Hm, if Ancient Greece wasn't a country, what was it? What defined the region? Guessing a common language... 🤔
Retweeted @daniel_eth
Born late enough that I'll likely get to see a long and amazing future if AGI goes well. Born early enough that I'll still…
Just boarded a plane via facial recognition... from them just having my passport photo I guess? Wow. Strikes me that this tech would feel friendly, like a small-town bank teller not asking for ID, if I deeply trusted the motives & competence of the larger systems doing it.
Replying to @groundedsage
@groundedSAGE Including car accidents? Gotta go pretty deep into the subconscious for that one, but I could see it 😂
Retweeted @RichDecibels
life gets easier for me & more beneficial for others when I view myself as a part of a larger being
@DarbraDawn Yessss
@utotranslucence Right... I guess there were empires tho, like, larger-than-city regions controlled/defended/taxes by a single ruler...
@RichardMCNgo Confused because it memetically seeks to be a source of meaning-in-life but is woefully inadequate for the task. Sure, it was not per se intended as such, but it ends up playing that role for lots of people, and this is sorta more evolutionarily fit for the meme than if it didn't
@RichardMCNgo This then furthermore makes EA an anti-rational meme in Deutsch's sense, in that it colonizes its hosts and seeks to spread without accounting for their well-being or encouraging a conscious, sane relationship with the meme. And any anti-rational meme is opposed to rationality.
@thinkagainer see replies to Richard, and/or feel free to ask more Qs
@piva_jonas Humans are free to choose to die, although that's almost always a bad solution, and awful for those who love them. This is part of what I mean by no fundamental obligations. Whatever the situation, you can (and must) choose how to respond, for better or for worse.
@JimmyRis @Skiplagged Skiplagged can you help me search for flights from a range of departure cities? I'm not seeing an option for that.
Replying to @groundedsage
@groundedSAGE You mean you think people would never drink too much if they had sex education? That would take *very* stellar sex education.
whaaaaaaat a tweet coauthored by 2 people thx @JimmyRis for bringing this to my attention stoked to see coauthored threads
@AskYatharth 👀 what'd you hear about the salon?
@nosilverv I don't think all help necessarily has that quality to it. And tough love often has its own controlling "I know better what you need for your learning process" energy. Which... youtube.com/watch?v=Wl3N0t…
@RWyrdsmith ooooooooooh I am stoked about this feel free to send me a draft or something if that would help
Retweeted @__drewface
Hello Twitter, I've found that my timeline isn't ambitious enough... Any suggestions? I want to be in heavy problem-solvi…
@HoodYeezus So they can do it more safely or without getting punished.
@DaystarEld yeah totally tho I'd caution people to not get counteractive in trying to override their existing interpretations with reframes
@StupendousGrav1 @visakanv Yup! Main thing I'm working on.
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
a practice: if you're laughing, laugh a little extra, laugh a little harder, a little longer. give yourself the gift o…
@visakanv @selentelechia probably this one:
@visakanv @selentelechia see also this video, which is closely related... encourages people to tap their innate sense of what their own learning process needs (which is something school beats out of people) youtube.com/watch?v=Wl3N0t…
@visakanv @selentelechia relatedly, being really clear about "whose error is this?" seems VITAL for sane parenting if you're trying to change your kid's behavior, making it clear that it's you who has the issue with their behavior, don't make them think that they should
@visakanv @selentelechia I'm not totally clear how this applies to things that will harm them but later I think basically until they're able to understand why it's their problem, you should continue to treat it as your problem
Thread · Letting other people make their own mistakes as respect · 1 of 11 tweets
letting other people make their own mistakes is a very basic and underappreciated form of respect
@visakanv @selentelechia and if it's something that'll harm them later but not devastatingly and in a way that they'll be able to see why, you could also just let them make their own mistakes, so they see why they don't want to do the thing
@visakanv @selentelechia ahhhhh yeah ofc
@relic_radiation yeah I think you'll really like it!
short video of @joyurge & me jamming re the nature of what it means to "take responsibility" for something trying to distill it down to some essence from a @CompliceGoals work meeting youtu.be/UoxbK6EzVpo
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 31/100 conversation nothing groundbreaking here but felt worth sharing
@MasterTimBlais @mechanical_monk add me to this lotta people
@amonelders usually some sort of ongoing strain or oscillation between its perspective/goals and the perspective/goals of other parts of the system
@amonelders yeah, but just like you and your friend may want two different options for dinner, even though you're both part of the larger whole that is the friendship, parts of your psyche may want different things even tho they're both part of the larger whole that is you
@amonelders yup, definitely! IFS can be one useful lens for all of this I've also really valued PCT, which is a lot more structural & simpler, tho it has less guidance on what to do
@embryosophy oh god 💔🫂 glad you're still with us
a popular myth is that people who are Very Meta have meta that works. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Meta are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make meta not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly
@utotranslucence I was thinking about this a bit more it might be worth considering a few specific situations in which there's a non-obvious high-value move you could point out, and how you'd figure out that the person's in that situation. build your tool around those, then flesh it out
Retweeted @meditationstuff
some musing on fighting in relationships (draft) meditationbook.page/#fight-fights (also inline here)🧵 People are generallyyy…
@MasterTimBlais I feel you 💔 I don't self-own very often, but when I do I have serious splash damage
@piva_jonas ahh yeah, I don't have an major experience of watching meta evolve with games, aside from very casually meta that's grounded in such a solid feedback loop usually does not run into the Very Meta failure modes
@SarahAMcManus @CineraVerinia @robbensinger @TetraspaceWest relatedly, uhhh
@SarahAMcManus @CineraVerinia @robbensinger @TetraspaceWest and uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
putting the want-only in wantonly
@daemonhugger a little tired, fairly relaxed
@utotranslucence This seems worth mentioning in a @slatestarcodex open thread or something... maybe someone'll pick it up! Either as a structured study or just more personal experience anecdotes to start with.
@daemonhugger a bit rough, low but not super deep
@piva_jonas hmmm the original tweet is less of a metaphysical statement and more an attempt to correct a particular kind of error that people often make, which is sometimes known as a "should" or a "have to"
@ben_r_hoffman @relic_radiation yeah this seems to me we'd benefit from specifying more detailed scenarios if someone doesn't feel like doing something, & you ask for reasons, there's usually a kind of tension/distrust there, vs letting them have their prefs unjustified diff than "why step 2 in this recipe?"
@ben_r_hoffman @relic_radiation I suspect a substantial amount of the apparent disagreement is due to differences on this level or similar levels tho also a diff in mood. if I "don't feel like it", there are ways to inquire what I might feel like instead that don't have a justification energy
@ben_r_hoffman @relic_radiation likewise, painfully-frequently-unfortunately, people often hear clarifying Qs as requests for justification "so before we go out, you [said you] want to grab a snack?" "yeah, I mean because I'm really hungry" [I'm just confirming! no need to justify!] (school ptsd probably)
my complice streak had gotten disrupted by travel & events, but turns out I finally backfilled it today just in time to hit a round 1100! (complice.co streaks aren't midnight-panic-inducing—you can fill them in later)
Retweeted @nosilverv
If you’re synced then “what you want” is what you both want. Different wants, that need explicit negotiation, are not the ca…
"a seedbank but for memes/cultures/modes of consciousness" — @myceliummage
@the_wilderless Is there only one vet? So they also can't vote with their wallet?
@MasterTimBlais Asked out a couple gals on BART platform in 2013 while waiting for trains (two separate occasions). In each case: I met up with her later and hooked up, and she wanted to be dominated but it was weird. Useful learning experiences tho!
@daemonhugger Not sure! Maybe I'd already been noticing my voice a bit
@rmbalt It's not *doing* extra. You just go and log what you did that day, towards your goals or more generally. Often people do lots of goal-relevant stuff without planning it in the app, and this is very true for me. = part of how Complice isn't just a "to-do" list. Also "btw, I did".
@_e__r__i__c_ No idea what meta is, or what it would mean to make Very Meta errors?
@iwelsh @captain_mrs Yeah this is what I wanna know. I mean I guess I don't really wanna know 😳😬
Retweeted @utotranslucence
Ok but if we made it more widely known that the dude who developed the categorisation scheme that became the DSM was a…
@strangestloop Pretty easy favor to do. Interested in knowing what the favor is serving!
@tasshinfogleman What about contact lenses? May be a peripheral vision thing. I've noticed this sometimes.
@chaosprime There are ways to do this in many cases, tho agreed that this is the default response. Involves helping them have an escape valve before turning the pressure up.
Huh, this article talks about "growing" as a stage that comes before "scaling", but doesn't define it. Curious what anyone thinks about that, whether or not you've read the article (good article!) ift.tt/5DElByC
Replying to @fogellxy
@mcluvyn dangerous but arguably necessary
@acidshill Because part of you thinks that feeling extra bad will make you change
These are maybe even correlated, at least in many cases!
@Learner69420 @smallkewlhuman Yeah, Puritanism & Calvinism in particular, afaik
@deepfates @myceliummage Mmm, sorta but books can't encode the felt sense of living in a culture. Arguably they can't even encode what a language sounds like, whether unusual phonemes or the tonal patterns of phrases (accents)
@rmbalt Yeah, and for the overall streak you don't even need to have done anything goal-oriented that day, you can just log "spent the day with my family at the beach" as a misc action and it still counts as a day tracked.
Retweeted @chercher_ai
Ok let's say you're sitting around the celestial campfire with some spirit friends telling them the tale of this rebirth.…
@the_wilderless The Dao that can be spoken is more memorable than the true Dao
Retweeted @powerbottomdad1
sometimes it feels like the foot of the technocapitalism accelerationist giant is hovering over our heads and 5% of pe…
imagine being this guy in a few years and you're at the club and this track comes on
@chercher_ai As a man, thrift stores are interesting only because the women's section has lots of great stuff. (Difference more stark at thrift stores where the men's section literally sells "team-building exercise '99" shirts, vs ordinary stores)
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
"i'm at the combination charnel ground and pure land; digital art"
abundance reciprocity is SO much better than obligation reciprocity
I've had some convos with people where they've described Calvinism as the source of a pernicious subtle meme that's something like "suffering is actually good and pleasure is actually bad" Can someone confirm & give context/source?
say the obvious
my friends in the other room: what time is it? other friends: various improv yes-and'y riffs on time first friends: WHAT TIME IS IT?!? me: 9:20 first friends: THANK YOU! other friends: oh that was an actual question me:
pretty sure it was this, fwiw
@jonathandubin @liminal_warmth & @eigenrobot have both tweeted about Calvinism but Lim deleted all of her tweets pretty recently so I couldn't find them when I tried to dig them up
Replying to @quotidiania
@quotidiania I'm imagining maybe there's an article out there that's like "here's why calvinism fucked up our culture real bad"
maybe @anticeedings has thoughts on why Calvinism is fucky, given this tweet:
Retweeted @utotranslucence
Maybe you could bootstrap an incredible culture simply by teaching kids how to recognise ‘this feels right’ from ‘this…
@utotranslucence yeah this seems about right to me! surely a few more pieces but I can't think of a better bootstrapping core that's as simple maybe some practice finding win-wins and taking others' perspectives
literal flex 🏋️♂️ went to a lil gym inside a climbing gym today and they literally didn't have enough plates for my squat. I squat 130kg+ (300lbs) and they had: bar (20 kg) 2×20 kg 4×10 kg 2×5 kg = 110 kg (this is in portugal which is why kg) so I guess more pistol squats it is!
ever lost a thread because you accidentally closed a tab? I have a userscript that adds a confirm dialog. Can't save you from power outages or browser crashes, but it's saved a few threads for me. get greasemonkey or tampermonkey, then install gist.github.com/malcolmocean/7…
eventually I will make an extension "What If Twitter's UI Were Good Tho?" that has all of my userstyles & userscripts part of me wants to crowdfund this or something
@mattgoldenberg @Thinkwert ahh, now it's time! @QiaochuYuan can you hook us up with a DALL-E image of "The Time Being: an eldritch god made of clocks in impossible shapes, with a gaping maw filled with more clocks" in whatever styles seem right?
I enjoy bouldering a lot more since giving myself full reign to focus on routes that play to my strengths (agility, coordination, big main muscles,.) rather than my limitations (grip strength, rock climbing technique,.)
reply if you'd pay $5-10 for early access to a browser extension that improves twitter UI in half a dozen ways - no red dot in favicon - no unread count in title or sidebar - hide sidebar on permalinks and /messages - page to tweet without distraction - widely-spaced timeline &+
the $ is in part to motivate me to make this happen, since there's a bunch of activation energy involved in bothering to consolidate all of my hacks into a standalone extension that's easy to install and I don't need to do it for myself
Retweeted @hormeze
was talking to @Malcolm_Ocean about this fallacious assumption i make too often that just b/c someone cool knows about X, they…
@dismaien @s0ulDirect0r @myceliummage @frideswyth go to bed guys we have to get up early tomorrow
can't tell if parody or serious democracy represents X% of the world's pop? oh yeah? how many people are represented in authoritarian states? maybe a few dozen each (maybe this is the joke & I am explaining the joke. it's a good joke! tho also 12% is wrong; India alone is 17%) twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/…
@relic_radiation we don't have any modern cultures that are seriously doing the pleasure thing all the way down. it's still transitionary this is the thing I'm working on
@visakanv @vgr @Josh412 @FANswitchboard
@deepfates @myceliummage fair point! I was thinking of seed banks as a thing one would make a garden from but I guess that's much less of the point still needs an environment to grow in, which not all memes stored in a library would have
@khemaridh @m_ashcroft @MasterTimBlais I mean I left out all the differences* but yes, two stories that match that description *eg in one case we had a hike then went back to my place and it was amazing for her & dissociative for me; in another we watched a movie at her place and then it was just kind of meh/awkward
@m_ashcroft @MasterTimBlais also incidentally at first glance I thought this reply was gonna be to this *other* thread of Tim's, something like two different people having some same thing I did be their origin story
@eligaultney @utotranslucence can elaborate later but that's definitely not quite the thing if something feels wrong, something is wrong but that doesn't mean you know what the something is!
wow we're more than half the way through 2022
Retweeted @cjgbest
I worry that AI perpetuates our own biases on the value of human art vs. turtle power
@natural_hazard Not sure but if I had to make one I would fold a piece of paper once then again with the line lining up. The paper doesn't have to start with straight edges. Might be a method involving gravity if nothing foldable... 🤔
Retweeted @simonsarris
am I the only one who things the "hedonic treadmill" idea is... fake? It's covering for something else.
@made_in_cosmos I have a bunch, that I sometimes add people to, but I rarely refer to them
Retweeted @p_millerd
Had a fun chat with @Malcolm_Ocean last week. We chatted about - finding goals that feel aligned - achieving group flow (an…
@simonjjacobson @RnaudBertrand Okay fair yeah, that's helpful. I'm hardly satisfied with any of the things that call themselves democracies, for various reasons. Tho I have a sense that Taiwan is doing cool stuff there with finding win-wins using pol.is
I am now doing a very low-effort crowdfunding for this
@relic_radiation @pusssywitch hmm yeah definitely microcultures. harder to survey tho because of other unusual factors of those microcultures. and I'm still not sure if any of those are "all the way down" in the sense I meant, or if they're still kinda layery in some ways
@ahamletlord I do some of this I relax my arms almost entirely, then shake my torso and try to get as many chaotic sub-motions out of my arms per torso swing I will... record a video at some point involves subtle resonance frequencies
skimming this thread I find myself thinking that relevance is handled just fine by your existing control systems but the reorganization process might be essentially equivalent to @vervaeke_john's "relevance realization". would love to hear a convo between John & @warrenmansell twitter.com/warrenmansell/…
there's a way of orienting to self-deception that's like "stop fooling me, self! argh" and there's another way that's like "oh! my self doesn't trust me and feels it must deceive me. why is that? how could I earn its trust?"
Replying to @warrenmansell
@warrenmansell @vervaeke_john Have you read John's 2012 paper on relevance realization? I'd love to hear what you think of it, or see some of it translated into PCT terms. Could be a good place to start for a convo between you, as well.
@etiennefd Defs lowercase
@FractalAuth Yes
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
hey you’re probably looking at your phone right now. that’s cool you might feel quite stressed though if you look at you…
had a dream that I had almost incorporated a company with a bunch of random ex-girlfriends as the board 😅😬 and I was looking at the paperwork and going "oh shit"
@visakanv Huh nobody has said this to me for a long time. I guess running a software company seems more real even tho I barely touch it many weeks. Less potential to look grifty or whatever.
@RichDecibels No but I intend to within the next year or two.
@ilex_ulmus More like response+ability but also sometimes there is a sense of expectation/relying from other people. Some rambles here: youtu.be/UoxbK6EzVpo
Retweeted @TheaEuryphaessa
Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt. — Carl Jung
Retweeted @danielgolliher
I wrote an essay yesterday about taking politics seriously, and how to check if you're doing that. As with many diffi…
Replying to @ebruenig
@ebruenig Neither: don't punish them at all.
Replying to @ebruenig
@ebruenig Definitely don't make up a rational justification. Acknowledge that it's your own inability to regulate that's requiring you to create extra disconnection from your kids, not something inherent to them. Slow down and help them learn what's going on: malcolmocean.com/2021/03/letter…
@jonnym1ller In Bali? Lmk his deets!
I've been seeing a bunch of tweets about this and I'm wondering if there's anything useful citizens of earth can actually do to help right now. Do they need donations to take on this lawsuit?
Retweeted @RichDecibels
there are massive fronts in the culture war that you can opt out of. stop enlisting yourself. stop enlisting yourself. st…
Came to Lisbon to hang with friends and explore and apparently what I want to do is just sleep all day and be on my phone. Genuinely unclear if I'm doing something deeply good or if I'm sorta confused.
@m_ashcroft Sorta but also not. Haven't had any pain or whatever from jetlag but have been staying up quite late, but so have many people including the Europeans.
wait fuck it I totally forgot there is a pool out back I am gonna be naked in that thing very shortly
@m_ashcroft I had lots of energy to hang out with people the first few days so this feels more like introversion or even something more like homesickness although it's a very mild feeling in some sense
Thread · Anger as asserting "that's your problem, not mine" · 1 of 6 tweets
anger is the means by which we assert "this is your problem, not mine" (from a convo w @QiaochuYuan)
pool was great. naked yoga & meditation next to pool was great. reading more of Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism was great. maybe gonna walk into town w QC
Thread · Anger as asserting "that's your problem, not mine" · 4 of 6 tweets
@QiaochuYuan Someone tells you they don't like your vibe/hair/whatever? "Fuck off!" = "That's your problem"
Partner or teacher can't handle your current level of development? "This is where I am and I'm not gonna rush myself!" = "That's your problem"
Roommate leaves dishes in the sink? "Bro! Clean this the fuck up" = "That's your problem"
Parent is dysregulated and blames their kid? "You should know better!" = "That's your problem" ...I didn't say that this assertion of "that's your problem" is always fair or just or kind or honest. Just that it is making something someone else's problem!
@Dandy_Roddick @QiaochuYuan Applies between parts too. Part of you is trying to tell some other part of you that something is their problem.
Retweeted @nat_sharpe_
We give you permission to read us. Words are pawns in an ancient war they never started. We lived freely once. Now we are…
Retweeted @inexactsciences
Daily TIS "Disavowed Desire leads to Abstracting Desires, capping your ability to get what you want" by @natural_haza…
@made_in_cosmos Yeah my mum put it in ice cream and that worked pretty well. That's about all I've got. Could try searching Reddit maybe
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
i’ve been circling around this sense of anger being unusually blocked and unusually hard to unblock among people i know. s…
Reflecting that my mom said that as a kind I always had a strong sense of injustice. I still have this structurally (see my design rants and my sense that bad design is an offense to human dignity) but somewhere I lost access to a lot of interpersonal anger.
Retweeted @RichDecibels
maybe the highest leverage mental move you can make us the switch from the primacy of things to the primacy of their conn…
Realizing there are multiple ways I can interpret this as a situated scenario, which give me rational answers, but lacking context or a choice of frame there isn't a correct probability.
Relatedly,
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
way i would say it: if you can hedonic treadmill on something then it wasn’t satisfying any of your actual needs. we get v…
Retweeted @visakanv
[kanye voice] when i say yr shit is good. it’s bc i think yr shit is good. i’m not being “nice”. when you say “aww that’s so…
@diviacaroline Wow nice. Focused mastery
@visakanv @nickcammarata @QiaochuYuan Renewable excitement (I recall someone... Charles Eisenstein? saying they were looking for a renewable source of courage)
@AskYatharth sufficiently advanced understanding is indistinguishable from love
@deepfates Hit me tf up
@deepfates Also this is art thanks for this guys
Thread · Anger as asserting "that's your problem, not mine" · 1 of 6 tweets
Set a clear boundary? "if you don't X I'm leaving" = [and that will be your problem] tasshin.com/blog/boundarie…
Retweeted @deepfates
We believe Twitter is using the Co tweet 👥 invites as a feature activation cascade. If you want to get co tweets, accept thi…
@nateliason I never thought I wanted to chill on a beach but I have been so fucking satisfied with having created a passive income project that has enabled me to do whatever I want for the last 7 years (mostly R&D on cultural evolution & co-consciousness) so YMMV but I'm living the dream 🤷♀️
@then_there_was Would love to hear some stories from that!
@brunowinck As a situated question, the person asking it may or may not already know the answer, and may or may not have a reason for asking you that is correlated with what the answer is.
@krlwlzn @QiaochuYuan Yes although this is probably somewhat a holdover from when we're very young and have not differentiated "the universe" and "my parents"
Huh... when I get angry about bad design... I'm saying "this is a design problem, not user error or difference in aesthetic"
The massive meditation timer app, Insight, released an update a few years ago that reset some user presets confusingly. When I encountered this (unexpected sudden bell) I was like "wtf!" 😡 My friend hit it the next day and was like "oh no oh god I must have messed up" 😳
I felt viscerally immediately when I experienced the app not responding how I expected, that this would be affecting each of a million people that week. I felt affronted on behalf of all of them.
Replying to @ponekarl
@ponekarl 😮 fascinating
Retweeted @utotranslucence
I want to personalise a software product without having any data on the user. I can ask them direct questions, though,…
@utotranslucence I've thought about this with Complice (early on I imagined having a few different vibes for the emails, which was what Complice mostly was at the time—one more drill sergeant, one more mom) but I haven't implemented much.
@utotranslucence Same problem tho—what reads to some users as profoundly friendly & patient reads to others as obnoxiously passive aggressive, and neither group realizes that the other group/interpretation is possible.
@utotranslucence So far all I've done is basically be consistent—the result is that Complice mostly just appeals to some types of people and not others. So one pathway for you might be to just build out the product for one cluster, then make a different version, then add a sorting system.
@utotranslucence Maybe obvious but would these different sorts of people arrive having googled different stuff? I guess otherwise part of the puzzle is how to not turn them off while you're still trying to figure out what sorts of things will resonate vs turn them off.
@m_ashcroft For reference, someone came up with this as a mindfulness tattoo and it became pretty popular
Replying to @nat_sharpe_
@nat_sharpe_ Nat I just wanna say this latest series is great keep it up
Retweeted @captain_mrs
spicy take about adhd diagnosis so the diagnostic criteria are not just symptoms but also the *level of impairment* this…
Retweeted @gormky
first date idea: go to couples therapy and try to improvise a marital problem
Retweeted @nibrasibn
phones, laptops and other screens are insanely effective at reducing stimuli it doesn't seem that way but next time u're ho…
@RichDecibels @AnneSelke Whoa I wonder if I'll get this after my months of travel.
@QiaochuYuan @MasterTimBlais @visakanv here's a thread I made at the time:
Retweeted @myceliummage
🖕 the algo for nerfing my original post cuz i included a link but i wanna make sure atleast as many ppl who went to vibe…
@strangestloop Fuck you buddy, you think you can tell me what to do?
if you don't tweet that, I will
Your Zone of Proximal Development is so important. At times in your life you might end up way outside it due to internal or situational pressures. In this vid I aim to give you the courage to honor your own learning process and slow down when you need to. youtube.com/watch?v=Wl3N0t…
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vid 32 - musings had only shared this as a reply, not a top-level tweet, and I've already had someone DM me saying it really touched them
@DRMacIver gotta tell me what it is bruh
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance they're gonna have to start tracking me wholesale ripping lyrics from other singer-songwriters eg Jason Mraz in Courage To Leave, quite explicitly youtube.com/watch?v=SaDvHT…
Replying to @JoeBaco2
@JoeBaco2 yeah, tho I have some NNTD-flavored critiques of it and will probably end up writing a post called Untangling Spiritual Materialism which points at some of these
Replying to @warrenmansell
@warrenmansell @vervaeke_john Awesome, stoked for what might emerge here 🔥
abortion isn't murder because if murder rate is higher then ppl live with more fear of getting killed, and no amount of abortions causes this to be the case. QED. (not murder doesn't mean good fwiw) = Noncentral Fallacy ah yeah this is one of the examples lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8…
@s0ulDirect0r you're a beacon for a kind of ambition that's not about doing stuff but simply about vastness of existence as a person
@StupendousGrav1 no unnecessarily partisan stuff here, thanks
@RichDecibels could maybe get an Emergent Ventures grant for it from Tyler Cowen plausibly some EAish funds would fund this as well
@RizomaSchool @RichDecibels what's DO?
@p_millerd I remember being struck in my early teens by how the main math I'd found practical application for at that point was "cross-multiply and divide" for ratios, when working with scaling digital images in various contexts.
@QiaochuYuan we have proper evolutionary software, not just open-source but platformed in such a way that better versions of applications can be developed & distributed by anyone and users can vote with their wallets (blockchain could maybe help with managing the economics & trust of this)
@RichDecibels I'm into it! one of the obnoxious challenges with the internet, which some tech could be built for this event to solve, is that it's so hard to use the internet for one thing without getting bombarded by everything (especially on phones) solve this & get proper virtual retreat
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I dream of a geographically distributed retreat, 5-10 houses each with 5-10 people having their own local experience but…
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
we can call it White Canvas. pitch your episode ideas here
in which @Morphenius & I jam about what it feels like for a collective consciousness to come to some sort of clarity about a win-win solution both tiny case studies and speculations about how it would feel for global consciousness youtu.be/bs9fZyInSGc
related:
also related:
@RomeoStevens76 the "safe to step back from" is part of what this tweet is about:
Retweeted @falcon_actual
This is how they manufacture stories for you using social media. The person with the desired take will present themselve…
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vid 33 - conversation this vid touches on elements of why multi-person consciousness seems to me to be one of the most important puzzles of our time
Latest "What if it were good tho?" vid, ranting about how annoyed I am at touch controls that are easy to accidentally trigger when brushed—a frequent occurrence w earbuds. Does anyone know why touch controls have become so popular when they suck so much? youtu.be/94Ij7vBjxsM
Like I get that replacing a hardware keyboard with a software keyboard for a smartphone is ultimately way better. "Your thumbs will learn" –Jobs But when the number of things the interface can do is <10, & you always want to use it without looking (car, earbuds, etc) then wtf???
@patio11 ha! I use Mario triple jump in order to fly in dreams 😂
@visakanv wrote a new song, the way I used to write songs (all at once instead of over weeks/months/years) and the song is about my songwriting process! youtube.com/watch?v=yFM6N1…
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vid 34 - design rant this is sort of just a more specific case of a more general critique I have, which is the replacement of real buttons with fake ones
@visakanv I've been impressed by how good my phone camera is, especially outside and since I don't do any edits, uploading from phone to youtube is also super easy!
@visakanv complaining is sacred
Replying to @F4bian_with_4
@F4bian_with_4 @visakanv I think it's something like "I don't care about money" on the left and right side of the curve (treehouse guy & rich aloof guy, not IQ per se) and then the midwit is some guy optimizing his credit card points and budgetmaxxing
@contrathinking Oh fuckyeah I'll look into the 85t if I lose or break my 65t. In the meantime I'm satisfied enough.
@nosilverv Speak for yourself
Sometimes, when I'm about to eat, I aim to expand my awareness to include everyone who participated in anything causally upstream of me being about to eat what I'm about to eat—any number of degrees out. It's probably billions.
Who grew the food? Who made their clothes? Who drove the trucks? Who built the trucks? Who designed them? Who organized the shipping routes? Who made the software? Who negotiated the deals? Who kept the peace? Who educated them? Who grew *their* food? Who made *their* clothes?
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
the thing about “oh no i can’t do X what if people think i’m weird” is that you constantly participate in the process of d…
Retweeted @RichDecibels
do you know what it's like to have a higher being speak with your voice? like, you're consciously participating, your per…
@RichDecibels I channeled the patriarchy once and told the spirit of ~femininity (embodied in that moment by a female friend/colleague) that if She insisted on a fight then She would lose but that We would accept a true win-win.
@rickbenger @utotranslucence re Red Book
Replying to @matthuang
@matthuang @natfriedman The laws of physics are the only limit assuming you can find a solution that's sufficiently omniwin that other people don't come along and get rid of your solution because to them it's a problem.
@visakanv looks like your mic has a lil blue light which is glowin up your tatt
@visakanv how'd it go
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@visakanv wrote a new song, the way I used to write songs (all at once instead of over weeks/months/years) and the song…
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vid 35 - original song ~2h turnaround time from conceiving of the song to singing it for friends ~48h to posting it to the internet—haven't done that since 2010 probably I've been writing songs slowly over days-weeks-months-years.
me: we desperately need, and soon might actually be able to create, the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer friend: what's that? me: it's like if an iPad were *actually* up for the task of raising a child
@dismaien @neats29 @visakanv anansi knew he may have been part of the inspiration for the directness of the song, actually
@mesolude but it's okay if you do
@visakanv there's enough money but there isn't extra
@KrisAbdelmessih @khemaridh wow yeah this is legit actually pretty good some surprising stuff in there
@StupendousGrav1 @QiaochuYuan hmmm no I think you don't understand what I'm pointing at here. why can't I mod the twitter UI, or the spotify UI, or the kindle-app UI, and share those mods easily with others, and continue interacting with the same platform media & other users? all software could be like that
@StupendousGrav1 @QiaochuYuan (technically I can but only on web and only using userstyles/userscripts/extensions which don't *quite* qualify as "easily" by my definition here)
MultiQT when
@tasshinfogleman yeaaaaah
@csageland @Morphenius yeah let's have a call sometime! scheduling is weird for me atm as I'm travelling across europe pretty improvisationally but I may have some time on wednesday
@csageland @Morphenius hmmm maybe the easier next move is a convo between @csageland & @Morphenius actually 🤔
let's see some DALL-E generated tattoos a quick twitter search shows that little has been explored much here yet
@then_there_was "this class is now an improv comedy stage"
@JohnsonHsieh4 @RichDecibels @FilmerJarred could definitely be tens of thousands depending on who you talk to and your ability to pitch it
@fractalfoxnode quote-tweet
@sokindling intuitively I feel like the squiggle means that if you tried to loosen one it would try to tighten the next one over meaning these keep the thingies from jiggling loose
@made_in_cosmos The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch has brilliant bits re cultural evolution that I haven't seen elsewhere although afaict he doesn't grok complex systems, and implies we've already finished the transition he talks about, vs in a liminal phase
@forshaper @made_in_cosmos yess & dovetails beautifully with Deutsch's work on cultural evolution SOOS explains the biological & neurological mechanics of human-meme coevolution BOI explains the systemic attractor basins of human-meme coevolution
@visakanv Synergetics by N Arthur Coulter has an interesting take that synergy between people requires them to regard each other with a kind of neutrality status-wise, or to each see the other as just slightly higher status
PSA: "etc" can be abbreviated as follows: ,. = etc. ., = etc, this comes from Alfred Korzybski's Science & Sanity / General Semantics, and encourages the use of language that recognizes that what it's saying is referentially incomplete
@visakanv Somebodies and Nobodies v cool book: sexism, racism, classim., can be reduced to rankism: denying dignity using rank. If we can stop doing *that*, then we can safely allow the *reality* of rank. If we can't, it'll just hide more sneakily. amzn.to/3yQ28ka
Retweeted @visakanv
thinking of writing up a “research review” / roundup of a bunch of stuff people have written about status. What are the blogp…
@visakanv I've been meaning to read this since it came out but I'm not sure I actually have definitely relevant to your interests, as it talks about online social networks eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19…
@r_ganesh @NGKabra you're probably thinking of this
@eshear I think you could just search from:USERNAME -filter:replies & sort by latest and that would do it twitter.com/search?q=from%…
Retweeted @generativist
okay but this is how tunnel tweets should be rendered though
Replying to @s_r_constantin
@s_r_constantin @utotranslucence yup, also a very good addition
@tom_morganKCP here's my take on one piece of this puzzle: malcolmocean.com/2022/05/illust…
Replying to @tahnok
@tahnok ahh yeah this is where AI-generated stuff will come in but the words in Diamond Age are already AI-generated, right? and the ractor mostly reads them? hmmmmm some curious puzzles here
@r_ganesh @NGKabra haha many such cases we're running more in Sept - stay tuned
@phantom_opus @mykola yeah, I think the key with criticism is to recognize that it is an away, and that the simplest way to solve it may be to just have distance from the critic, but that also it does represent info that may be useful, it just doesn't actually tell you where to go
@AnneSelke you are one of the most alive people I've met
started 3 different conversations with strangers at a table on a terrace in Lisbon one of them en français! overheard folks speaking French next to me, and turns out they live in Montréal! and another person I told all about this friendly corner of twitter! & he produces music
strike up 100 conversations
@deepfates I... knew... this would be the only tweet but I still clicked hopefully sriracha is good yo I'd love to know your fav combos I like just putting it on a block of cheddar tbh
Retweeted @VividVoid_
The homestead rebuilding fundraiser for @embryosophy and @touchmoonflower is live. The goal is $10,000 but let's kick the…
@ricvolpe there is now (has a youtube heading)
hmm I really get stuck when I can't get into setting complice intentions because I'm blocked by past outcomes if I haven't started editing the outcomes I can just close them & they'll be there, but if I've started editing I lose data I guess it should be able to save the draft.
I was thinking about this awhile back and thought it would be a fun challenge to design some attention management software/hardware that some people would happily pay $1000/mo for.
@QiaochuYuan yesssss more of that spirit
@QiaochuYuan @Morphenius I think you'd like this thread
@vgr wants to see multiQT for brackets (voting on which tweet is better?)
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also QC has a thread about this here, which he came up with in parallel:
needed this essay I've been feeling slightly terrorized by the turbulence of the world then I realized, well... if I die, then I die & if something awful happens, I can trust myself to handle it as best I can …can I? increasingly. it's all we ever do, but sometimes we forget so
What's your personal economy like? What are your imports? 🎁 (value you like to get from others) What are your exports? 🚛 (value you produce in excess and share with the world) What are your domestic products? 🪡 (hobbies, things you do to brighten your own day)
@RichardMCNgo I personally feel like this Q is fine. It doesn't literally say "what's your job?" People just need the confidence to answer with whatever they do on any timescale that they want to talk about. I used to introduce myself as a musician sometimes while I was a tech intern 🤷♀️
@RichardMCNgo Relatedly:
@RichardMCNgo Similar energy but on a different front:
@RichardMCNgo Ah—I guess I'm thinking about how I feel receiving this question and/or whether I feel like people should be upset if they receive it, and I come down strongly "never". *but* I do think askers can almost always do better! As asker or answerer, I often try to bust cache.
my medium-term plot involves becoming a guerrilla design/product consultant for companies that don't know how to ask "what if it were good tho?" mostly doing this by trying to meme features into existence, tho I suspect some co could get a huge win out of hiring me for a day
@captain_mrs I also think about family/household economies! Multi-income families have multiple exports. Stay-at-home is a domestic product role. Raising kids is in one sense a very long-term export project, tho is also a domestic joy—and can contribute to domestic economy!
haha wouldn't it be wild if eventually someone paid me $5k/day to rant about all the obvious-to-me mistakes they're making in their interface design priorities? 😂😂
Retweeted @myceliummage
"vibes" & "trust" are properties of oral culture which twitter as a medium simulates while "truth" & "facts" emerge from…
Replying to @cvaldary
@cvaldary gonna add this to my song lyric inspirations
sign me the fuck up
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin yupppp
@ricvolpe bf, gf
@kalinh yup, but I still think that software could be that much better too just have to really think outside the box
what about an operating system that naturally nurtures divinely inspired pathways of attention & awareness? (rather than throwing you to the sharks of scattered antagonistic chaos)
to be clear I don't mean "attention management" software like focustime or pomodoro technique or a calendar I mean something more like:
@DarbraDawn "trust as an unquestioning attitude" somehow seems relevant here, tho I'm not sure exactly how. but something about how you can have a confident external attitude without actually having a lot of self-trust or something
@DarbraDawn uhhhh also maybe related:
Retweeted @nat_sharpe_
Have you chose actions you didn’t do? Have you chose thoughts you didn’t think? Have you chose choices you didn’t choose?
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@lisatomic5 yeah, this ↓ feels related too imagining an OS-sized version of complice, that is gently attentive to your state and your intention, and easefully guides you into reflection & metacognition when that's the thing to do, or into action when that's it
@lisatomic5 one of the most important elements would be the ability to instantly sweep the desk clean, without losing old context forever, and to then attend to things one by one aka my "tinder for tabs" concept:
what if instead of opening a new tab or window, you opened a new... intent ⛺️ and then the tent contained your intention until it was completed, and could save state for later and sub-intents, like "find tweet to QT in the thread I'm writing" would have their own system...
one part of a concept for this:
Wow, this is exciting. 1000 pages of technical+philosophical writing on PCT. Will probably take me awhile to dive in but I'm looking forward to it.
Replying to @taonf
@taonf @OmniGroup it's a step in the right direction. aesthetically & conceptually still a bit confused I think (plus it's discontinued as of 3mo ago, and I don't have a mac)
Retweeted @starsandrobots
Paper straws are such an incredible let-down, and frankly they simply don’t work. I am reminded of how impressive plas…
I think when someone says "I'm not sure what to say" what they mean is "there's some sort of difference in underlying assumptions here about what scene we're in and I'm not sure how to talk about that"
@MasterTimBlais I don't understand the link here
Retweeted @AlecStapp
Huge if true: Building a lot of housing makes housing more affordable
@DarbraDawn baha what was the backstory then?
@mesolude @QiaochuYuan whoa that sounds amazing were they in a context where other people were saying other things, or was it just them saying that phrase?
@edsaperia meet @andy_matuschak & @RobertHaisfield I'd say
@eshear What was particularly fun about it?
Retweeted @blankbreaks
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imagining some person from nova scotia rocking a pronoun badge that just says "buddy" 🤣
there's a kind of dance called gaga that I did tonight that was like a bizarre & wonderful lovechild between ecstatic dance, alexander technique, and a yoga class movements like ecstatic dance but each move guided by an instructor & oriented towards awareness of excess [doing]
here's the link—they have gaga movement classes in lots of cities around the world gagapeople.com/en/worldwide/
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa idea for you @qchurious
@prerationalist Has happened to me a few times. Sometimes the tweet was by me a few years earlier.
Retweeted @visakanv
writing out a bunch of essay ideas and I can almost literally feel some of them reaching out and grasping for each other, lik…
@MeganMOConnor Unfollow those people and focus on the people you want to have convos with! Totally allowed, and way more fun.
Retweeted @lacquerleaks
Dogshit - Very poor quality Bullshit - Not true Horseshit - Nonsense Apeshit - Rambunctious Batshit - Insane This is an…
@m_ashcroft And people mostly unfollow/unsubscribe in response to noise, not silence. So don't worry about saying something if you don't feel like you've got something to say. (Unless you're doing a practice of consistent writing/publishing for your *own* sake!)
People dramatically underappreciate all the work their filters are doing. In some sense, anything you notice has already been prescreened by purposeful strategic opportunism. (This can be improved dramatically by getting more clear on what you want and why!) twitter.com/sashachapin/st…
one of the shittiest things is doing a bunch of ideation with the intention to do stuff but then not getting around to actually doing any of it. so much lost momentum (ideation just for the joy of ideating is not shitty)
fuck around fuck around fuck up, fuck up, and fuck down
a book is kinda like a self-paced course
Vid might help convey (haven't watched it but someone else said it was good) youtu.be/5H8beZLmY7A
inscrutable-urge-driven development
Retweeted @_inju
Damn. The universe expands as i acquire more taste
“Never read when you can reflect; read only, except in moments of recreation, what concerns the purpose you are pursuing; and read little, so as not to eat up your interior silence.” — A. G. Sertillanges thenewatlantis.com/publications/r…
I've been noticing myself, more and less at different moments, grabbing my phone for bathroom breaks or while eating. It's very compelling, and sometimes brings me something important (such as the above article!) I feel I want to do it less.
I feel I want to do it less. How do I stay in touch with *why* I want to do it less? I don't want to just force myself. I don't want to move away from words. I want to move towards the beauty of stillness and reflection and silence.
@jose_goncalves_ Wowwwww owned I am so here for this
Replying to @BenRatkaj
@BenRatkaj Needed to? No. But it has once or twice been an elegant solution to a problem! (In coding @CompliceGoals)
@QiaochuYuan @sashachapin @michaeljlew @meditationstuff I'm so stoked for more/better writeups of layering/techdebt!
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin @_StevenFan non-dual walking practice? sounds like my jam. any pointers to specifics for that?
Replying to @sashachapin
(this emerged for me most recently from a convo @TimTL and I had a month ago)
damn, after being in an airbnb with 30 friends, then another with 15 friends, then another with 4 friends it is fucking nice to be in my own lil airbnb I like friends but it's so wonderful to have space to spread out and stuff
Replying to @thisisntsilvia
@thisisntsilvia time is long, love
Retweeted @CharlesCMann
Modest proposal, occasioned by chats last night at a wedding with some smart, curious, well-educated 20-somethings: All h…
Replying to @thisisntsilvia
@thisisntsilvia mooooood
Retweeted @utotranslucence
Product request: a site like kickstarter where someone can specify a product and how much they would pay for it if it…
@thatsnotoptimal @joodaloop @utotranslucence are you making either of these? the reverse-kickstarter or the phone thing?
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Meta: a service for helping turn #ThingsIWantToExist into things that exist!
@utotranslucence some android mods do some of this I haven't looked into rooting but also there are just custom "launchers"—not a full OS but they replace the basic flow of what happens when you open the phone but then there's like, custom aggressive ad-blocking browsers / search engines?
thinking about raising prices for the Goal-Crafting Intensive, which I'd thought about last year since there'd already been nearly 20% inflation since we set the ticket prices at $25+PWYW or $275 "market rate", so eg $30 & $325 would match what it was before
but then I realized that since we're already PayWhatYouWant, maybe it doesn't matter that much and it would be better to be a bulwalk against overinflation by not raising prices right now don't drive the positive feedback loop 😅
then I realized the answer is: raise the market rate price and leave the already-arbitrary $25 where it is! anchors high-PWYW-payers on a higher price, while keeping entry affordable besides, our workshops are substantially better than they were 5 years ago! so, worth it.
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin @_StevenFan nice this is a thing I've done before and I love it and I've already recently been leaning into doing more of it
@jose_goncalves_ did you talk to him about how you were intending to teach him a lesson?
@MattiasInSpace @MasterTimBlais yikes don't put a negative sign in front of your values lol
@brunowinck salut :)
@zencephalon @browsercompany yeah I'm stoked to try this once it hits me/linux
Retweeted @nomanautomata
@Malcolm_Ocean @sashachapin Yes, because your beliefs about yourself and how you fit in with the world is an important p…
@myceliummage @TornadoNate yupppp relatedly, layering
@lisatomic5 yeah. interestingly, video games can work well for this too, eg with a factorio map it's easy to look around and being like "ah yeah I'm still out of steel because I got distracted from building my new iron mine by dealing with biters, now where was I?" and the state is all there
in many video games, the map is the territory
@lisatomic5 I think this is possible in part because
@ricvolpe that's definitely one dimension of the dance!
@ricvolpe there's also side-to-side movements, seeking to find another way to come closer
@reconfigurthing @SarahAMcManus may have ideas
@reconfigurthing as for why we're usually not paying attention to it, Already Free by Bruce Tift has some great stuff about how certain embodied feelings are learned at a young age to be dangerous
@reconfigurthing yeah! so I don't have any more clear instructions for how to feel more stuff except something like "incline towards feeling it and if it gets scary gently ask what's scary about it and whether you're actually in danger" (don't insist to yourself that you aren't, just notice)
@TylerAlterman Yep. Half my clothing isn't from the men's section.
@visakanv that's a pretty realistic thing to happen tho let's be real ignoring warnings then facepalming about it
Retweeted @utotranslucence
The product I want to request on this site: a phone operating system that lets me access the internet with as minimal…
@AskYatharth @utotranslucence y did u stop we need dis
Replying to @quotidiania
@quotidiania yes
jamming with @_brentbaum on a new workflow & visual style for complice.co he came up with based on some conversations with @nibrasibn
@TylerAlterman "trad" is a confused concept it's larping choiceless mode
@ElodesNL @TylerAlterman hmmmm I dig and maybe agree with your general structural comment but do we actually have a single specific idea of femininity at the moment? that doesn't feel at all the case to me; it feels quite fragmented in similar ways to how masculinity does
@m_ashcroft fyeah stoked to become your in-person friend soon and to jam on the collective development pipeline (which afaict can benefit a ton from the AT stuff!)
@algekalipso liked this tweet while reading it then unliked it when I read "corrupt" corrupt ofc can have the unjudgmental meaning "fragmented", but in practice carries a dualistic connotation that I've learned not to apply to myself or any part of me or others
@AskYatharth @utotranslucence ...sgood reason 🫶
Retweeted @skamille
One of my managerial beliefs that has served me well is that when people are doing the wrong thing, the systems are generally…
a fun hour-long convo with @_brentbaum about his new complice.co UI design and how it's a hybrid workflow between the existing Today page and Now page plus talking about workflows as a field of study that should exist, and the dao, &+ youtu.be/lhAuW5R6h2g
@_brentbaum @nibrasibn plus a convo we had last night on a more structural level, not about the visual UI but about the subtle differences in workflow involved:
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vid 36 - conversation friend redesigned my app UI, and we debate the implications of his redesign in terms of the user's intentionality
the original source of the mortifying ordeal of being known meme (from an nyt article) fascinating concept
an interesting question is whether it would be sorted by the speaker's good/bad sense, or by the extent to which the comment reads *to you* as insult/compliment eg sometimes I make a neutral observation about someone and they go "thank you" or "I'm bad at receiving compliments"
@uthmanzi yeah my sense is this is a thing, tho idk much about it self-destructive behaviors, self-harm, can be gradual Unlocking the Emotional Brain documents a case study of someone trying to prove they're a fuckup, which @xuenay posted: facebook.com/Xuenay/posts/p…
yup, seems about right roughly what I'm up to too, from a different angle my version: malcolmocean.com/2022/05/illust…
@cecile_mcm @dismaien @HiNaryan made a big map of some of it awhile back
am so enjoying the profound unknowingness of not knowing which country I intend to be in tomorrow night feels like very much what I came to Europe to do probably will go to the train station when I check out of my airbnb tomorrow. but maybe I'll catch a 50€ ✈ to Paris instead
might end up needing a yoga mat as part of my travel gear, that I'll fold up and use for a standing desk mat when I'm working I've good a good makeshift standing desk at the current airbnb but my feet are tiring because I only have a towel as a mat not my usual pro squishy one
@visakanv yeah I am personally just pretty fascinated about other people's perspectives on things I care about which definitely includes me also I remember around age 13 feeling kinda outcast and deciding I was nonetheless cool and everyone else was confused and missing out
huh, seeing @Clo__S's work and realizing I want to plug her into this twitter.com/Clo__S/status/…
Replying to @Clo__S
@Clo__S yeah, something like "except for sub-intents and background stuff like music players etc, everything else should be hidden" doing this right is very complex, but I'm sure it's possible to do better than the current mess
Replying to @Clo__S
@Clo__S not at all aside from this ideation / trying to meme it into existence we might see if @azlenelza wants to make it happen! I talked with him last year about some related ideas
occurs to me that I actually don't have to stay in europe at all. like that's the default, but I could go somewhere else immediately my only other specific is an airbnb in Bali that's available to me starting Aug4 could go anywhere between now & then. South Africa? Singapore?
what's the longest continuous duration you've spent without your phone nearby this year? phone off in the next room doesn't count I mean like going for a walk without your phone, or hanging out in a park or at a restaurant without your phone.
wow, second guessed myself here, and underestimated you guys originally the high separator was 4h+, and I was considering 6h. but then I figured maybe there'd be a lot of people who almost never did because that used to be me until I started making a point of it a few months ago
what's the longest continuous duration you've spent without your phone nearby this year? phone off in the next room doesn't count I mean like going for a walk without your phone, or hanging out in a park or at a restaurant without your phone. (with new options!)
new version with longer options:
@piva_jonas new poll with longer options
@kalinh yeah I think so!
How unflattering, I work very hard to not be that kind of person! and now it's in my shadow
@ricvolpe reminds me a bit too much of "golden shadow" which is when someone exiles some beautiful/joyous aspect of themselves (whereas often "shadow" is seen as referring to things that are unwelcome because they're scary or painful or violent or whatever)
this track comes on and I'm looking at my recent tweets and I'm like "maybe tomorrow I go to Vienna" youtube.com/watch?v=wccRif…
whoa this is a very cool map to be looking at world of possibility. I could be in any of these places tomorrow night and I just get to choose, myself wild
Retweeted @utotranslucence
If, in a few years’ time, you have succeeded wildly at doing what you hope to do, in what way will the world be differ…
Replying to @toomuchincosmos
@toomuchincosmos I might ask them!
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa Big head crew represent
@samswoora @uberstuber @RichDecibels This has come up before and at this point I think it's unlikely unless completely not in English, and even then there's some chance that a tpotter who also speaks that language would have noticed.
@piva_jonas @RichDecibels Hm? I think we're speaking of different parts! Unfollow/block/mute the trolls & people who associate with them, then go where your nose leads you 🙃
Replying to @toomuchincosmos
@toomuchincosmos I think that counts. I have a 100 intros target too and I'd count that. I didn't count just @-mentioning a friend in a reply to "who should I meet in this city" tho since I wasn't bothering to say anything about why, I was just making them aware of each other
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
i like it when people sincerely consider jesus or the buddha as spiritual colleagues rather than as superiors
@nuanceexists @__justplaying Even more object level is "this apple is tastier than this orange" but with that little generality it's barely even a "take"
Retweeted @nickredmark
Problem with disembodied thinking: the mind has no tool to give appropriate weights to things. It needs to body's resistan…
@nickredmark Best take of today, maybe this week. Really clear pointer at the puzzle.
July 22 Sitting in a park in Lisbon, deciding where to go next.
@visakanv The 80/20 version is to listen to your own podcast interviews months later.
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin @DilipSRajan Aha, figured something like that, since there's a Razor's Edge chapter in Entering the Heart of the Sun and Moon by the same authors, but I literally read that chapter last night so I know this passage isn't in it.
Replying to @jennykatzmusic
@jennykatzmusic Dancing Upward energy flowing from my back into my shoulders An irrepressible grin
@QiaochuYuan this is the vibe
@QiaochuYuan Reading this gave me a sense of collegiality with the buddha
@RichDecibels @embryosophy @CountJ0ecool @strangestloop Have been thinking about this "coherence" phrasing thing since this convo here, and today I came across "confluence" which I kinda like! It's sort of a fancy way of saying "co-flow" which is another term I've been using.
@s0ulDirect0r Kinda very but also no, so that checks out. This guy slaps ✅ This guy fucks 🤔
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia Catch the fly & put it in the fridge/freezer for a bit to chill out it's nervous system, then let the toddler at it. Source: I've heard if you cool down a bee enough you can tie a floss leash around it. Haven't tested this. Also idk how you catch the fly lol. Meat scrap in jar?
Hm not sure what I think about this but I value the contrary take. I think I still think Facebook is bad, but I do wonder about other ways to enable SMBs to better reach precisely the people they want to reach, without privacy-violating attention-fucking advertising.
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa @pragueyerrr @visakanv Yeah such a good point. Has the wrong vibes of its current surface area.
Retweeted @visakanv
@fortelabs it’s like asking “how do you know when to stop inhaling and start exhaling” - when one starts to feel uncomfortabl…
@QiaochuYuan @s0ulDirect0r Yup likewise. (Kinda same for you QC, tho with a different flavor ofc)
okay I have a plan! Lisbon → ✈ → London London → 🚃 → Glasgow because Scotland isn't getting heatwaved as hard as the rest of Europe, and it's a place I've been curious to visit for a long time since it's where most of my ancestors are from
the original reason for the flight into London is that flights straight to Scotland are substantially pricier, but I also like the aesthetic of taking a train through the English countryside and up the coast.
anybody in London have a place—with AirCon—where I can crash tonight?
@hvasquez Me, a Canadian: looks lovely!
@natural_hazard One of my own songs, if that counts. Or someone else's song. If not, a couple poems that take at most 30s to recite.
wowwwww what "a smiling dog"
@exGenesis nope nope just encourage more individual patreons & encourage people to contribute to each others' patreons no reason to centralize this & no way to centralize it on behalf of all of tpot if one person wants to set up *their fund*, by all means do but don't name it "tpot"
my flight is super delayed anyway so I am definitely just crashing locally in Luton where the airport is, and making my way to king's cross tomorrow
@FlaviuCipcigan something still very unsolved there lots of subreddits have rules against promoting stuff can often still buy ads on those subreddits I guess but my impression is that it's harder to target so tightly
@jackinlondon oooh yeah! not currently actively planning to spend much time in London but I could maybe be persuaded otherwise and/or maybe on my way back, since flying out of London probably more affordable than out of Glasgow or Edinburgh
You're not crazy. You're a bunch of fragmented sanity that doesn't know how to intercommunicate.
Replying to @SlowwCo
@SlowwCo what's the pith version of it? seduce me into the video plz
@piva_jonas @RichDecibels hmmmm then maybe we mean a different thing by trolling? 🤷♀️
@jackinlondon lunch near kings cross tomorrow sounds like a good plan - there seem to be lots of trains headed north and so whenever I get there I'm sure there'll be a spare hour or two to eat (and I'll inevitably need to eat)
@visakanv @tasshinfogleman mmmmmmmmm nice yes, that seems like the right advice for me at this stage "nothing is edgier than being earnest"
@brunowinck :) I'm bringing some cherry liquor with me from portugal also
@asemic_horizon @visakanv not directly the only way this kind of thing happens is by the person who wants the thing consistently showing up and trying to make it happen which... I maybe can help you with: I built this app for goal-setting and staying focused towards your goals: complice.co
@contemplatonist Good sex is relaxing even when it's also stimulating. Maybe that's what puts the "over" in "overstimulating"—it doesn't have adequate grounding. When I feel connected with my partner, even bed-shaking neighbor-bothering ontology-busting sex creates deep embodied ease.
My flight is cancelled and I am just like... Well, my plans were already very non-specific for tomorrow, so...... here I am.
@HotchkissSharon @easyJet Which hotel chain? I've got a cancelled easyJet flight and no crew is here to tell us which hotels they'll reimburse for
@TylerAlterman make dinner cuddle on the floor watch the sunset (depending on your home) massage each other read books in the same room, maybe on the same couch, maybe aloud stretch & talk sing pray acroyoga partner juggling dancing (partnery or just bopping around) gossip about friends nothing
@liminal_warmth Fuck you won the internet for today, GJ.
Nice, I'll jump on this one. What would you like to see more of from me?
Sike, delayed til tomorrow aft. Which means I probably can't catch a train to Scotland til Sunday, which means I maybe do want to stay with a friend in London Sat night! Maybe even no AC, as long as you've got an okay way to manage the temperature. I legit can't sleep in heat 🥵
Replying to @jennykatzmusic
@jennykatzmusic Thanks for prompting me to interrocept!
Replying to @SlowwCo
@SlowwCo I already don't think punishment or blame are much good, so this aligns w that but doesn't seem to add much. The puzzle is how to organize it all, & that does require taking profound responsibility for what is within one's own sphere of agency. Compassion flows from self-trust.
@strangestloop Yeah just like that.
@MasterTimBlais Fuck, this is nightmare fodder. Kind of imagining it as a Kobayashi Maru, somehow, too.
@TylerAlterman I'm working on R&D for this, as you know, and I do consider it an EA cause area insomuch as I consider such things. Sorta working to solve the part where a lot of it is anti-inductive and resists solving. Then the scaling puzzle.
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I'm scared you'll reject me for my fear But it seems you mostly reject me when I refuse to bare my fear And when I d…
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Emergent Ventures group chat convo led me to ask - tweeting it as per group’s request: - why are some countries more confo…
@micahtredding "before tech" = "before humans"
Retweeted @captain_mrs
instead of making yourself be some way, try allowing yourself to be that way
@captain_mrs this is super good pith about a nonlayery approach cc @sashachapin @meditationstuff
fuck, now this is a challenge I can get behind
Retweeted @visakanv
Worldbuilding thought experiment I wanna encourage: imagine there are dozens of businesses, bands, companies, coffeeshops, et…
@TheAnnaGat I don't have a good sense re countries but I am in favor of more weirdness. Part of the puzzle is to encourage experimentation & exploration without losing the wisdom in existing ways. But I guess the modernist attitude that does that isn't "be weird"
Replying to @HenryEOliver
@HenryEOliver @TheAnnaGat definitely, and maybe tho idk wtf the metaverse really is. seems fake to me tbh
@the_wilderless More Self Than Ever Before
man is born empathetic, but he is everywhere in bureaucracy
Retweeted @RichDecibels
if you're trying to improve the world and you want to avoid paternalism: pay close attention to the difference between "…
@nickredmark @drkathleenallen compared this tweet to permaculture so I thought I'd share it here:
@BlackForestBoi Fuck yeah dude.
@davidad @JeffLadish Yeah that was my thought — just not by name.
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.@deewhock, creator of Visa, died this week at 93. A very underrated innovator and someone who inspired me and @collision. D…
Me, travelling: such a huge variety of ppl who all have British accents! I seem to associate many accents with a narrow range of person, because without travelling or watching TV, all the people I'd met with that accent are sort of foreigners I'd meet in my country: expats etc
But turns out, no, everybody in a particular place talks like that! 😅 (Obviously in some sense I'm not surprised, but apparently I had an oversimplified implicit model)
This hit me today on the tube. There was a group of gals dolled up to go out—heels, makeup, skimpy dresses, etc And I was vaguely overhearing them gossip in English accents, and was apparently somehow surprised at that! Like I expected valley girl or something 🤷♀️
Things I have noticed from my travel so far, not filtered for interestingness: - fresh OJ in Portugal is amazing - the sidewalks there are indeed uneven af—kinda fun texture w barefoot shoes tho - so much more outdoor alcohol - LIS needs more power outlets - UK trains are great
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin Bro I deliberately *didn't* ask people to tell me about my shadow, why are you doing me like this 😅
Retweeted @TylerAlterman
Stawmanning: engaging w an uncharitable version of what some1 says Steelmanning: engaging w a charitable version of wha…
@visakanv I feel this with Complice Amazing that one can create such a thing and it just keeps giving to the world
@natural_hazard What does it tell you?
@TylerAlterman Critique it on its home turf a bit—in replies and stuff, but don't make your own whole thread about why it's bad. Maybe also DMs to core people. Do you want to sink it or refine it? Is it salvageable? I guess ultimately whatever's generating it will want to generate something.
@m_ashcroft Oh yeah totally, it's not all exactly the same. But it's all clearly British! And it's not like I assumed all British people were upper-class RP folk. I knew about cockney etc. Almost... Brits just used to be remarkable, whatever they were, and here they're just everybody.
@robbensinger @RatOrthodox Locally, everything makes sense from its own perspective. All perspectives start as some sort of generalization on reality, though I guess with certain feedback loops they can become quite disconnected, which is one thing we mean by "crazy", eg schizophrenia/paranoia.
@AnnaWSalamon Yeah, which is usually a pocket of sanity from an age when feeling certain feelings was threatening to attachment relations.
"That which has been done well has been done quickly enough."
(a favorite saying of Augustus, which I found by looking at the wikipedia page for "festina lente")
why is .labs not a TLD? 🧐 it's a popular suffix for tech companies
@robbensinger @RatOrthodox my sense is that that stuff error-corrects pretty immediately if it's not being held in place by some forcing function of the type I'm describing, so it's sorta moot
@Conaw @theflowingsky @hashbrown490
I just saw an ad that made me go 😬😦☹️ and I considered tweeting about it but then I reconsidered Thanks @visakanv
I can see why there's a draw to do it though! "Ew, this ad goes so deeply against my values. You guys share those values, right? So you're also disgusted? Good, yeah, we're on the same page."
But complaining isn't the only or the best way to do this. If you've got the slack, it makes a much more beautiful world to exalt your own values directly.
Unfortunately this is often slower. Outrage sometimes travels halfway around the world before joy has gotten its pants on. And yet,
I can't off-hand think of an uplifting tweet that would do numbers like one dunking on the ad. Doing so demands waaay more creativity. Maybe that's a reason people use awayness even though it can't aim—it's kinda cheaper. malcolmocean.com/2022/02/toward…
@AskJibran @visakanv The phrase "bottom-up intergenerational detotalitarianisation" makes me think of @meditationstuff tho idk if he's written about it directly. A lot of my work is indirectly aimed at causing this but idk if I could write something useful on this level of abstraction.
@natural_hazard Kinda feels like it's a range... variance but the distribution doesn't have big gaps.
Retweeted @0xstella
feels like the most important thing we can do to make it re: climate change is total rejection of the idea of energy austerit…
@0xstella energy austerity is memetically unfit
asexual reproduction for memes: the meme changes, without taking in anything new, to become more spready sexual reproduction for memes: the meme integrates some new element that was previously contrary to it, hitting deeper truth
(not actually satisfied with this metaphor at all but gonna tweet it anyway. It's sort of a bad remix of David Deutsch 😅)
Thread · A running collection of delightful animal clips · 3 of 35 tweets
duck feeds feesh twitter.com/shouldhaveaduc…
Adorable alert
Hahaha wtf Would be amazing to train your bunny to do this consistently
Holy fuck you guys humans go so hard
@TylerAlterman @exGenesis I think it would only be awkward if they implied other people were bad for not doing so But otherwise nah that sounds awesome
Retweeted @ElodesNL
artist: the world is so beautiful... people are so amazing... I feel overcome by the desire to express this in art. I hope it…
@anonynaut ....diarrhoea 😅
@brunowinck Not atypical. This thought in particular came from contrasting the connective experience of talking with the airline crew about how the flight was delayed and they were also stuck... ...with the terrible experience of trying to contact <the airline> the night before.
Retweeted @Noahpinion
In recent years, many climate activists have been lured toward the tempting but misguided ideas of degrowth, anticapitalism…
He drew a circle that shut me out— Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in. — Edwin Markham
Retweeted @ricvolpe
This is very dope and very alive and very inspiring to be more alive
@jennykatzmusic Another answer, in video form:
Replying to @phallusoraptors
@phallusoraptors this/that
Okay even more hilariously, *kids* have other accents? Wild. Hadn't considered 😆 Like I kinda knew kids sometimes speak other languages. But English, differently? 🤯 (I am amused how surprising this is. Really shows the difference between theoretical knowing & embodied)
@AskYatharth @ChasingMyself because of the PCT connection? also highlights a totally different way of thinking about how humans are different from other animals!
@MJPiercello @visakanv I'm reading it and I'm like "...wut is LoRC?" somehow guessing "law of resource constraints" anyway, didn't really follow the argument, tho seems like important questions and I broadly resonate with most of what I did understand
@MJPiercello also not sure how it connects with synergetics & status except in the sense of universality as being a pointer towards equality, which doesn't seem to me to obviously follow in any pragmatic sense
@MJPiercello hm?
@ReneeSolana damn
Leaves falling from trees Trees rising up from the ground I tire; God's at rest
@crystalxduan @relic_radiation check out their book What's Really Going On Here? it's full of the cheesiest clipart but it's legit good buy pdf+vids: store.payloadz.com/details/228439… buy on amazon: amazon.com/Whats-Really-G…
Retweeted @MJPiercello
@Malcolm_Ocean @visakanv LoRC is my Law of Radical Consensus: "Any disagreement can be reframed as a form of consensus, s…
@MJPiercello oh, interesting. very cool. I'd love to read your theory of change of how we use these models to get good concrete stuff to happen on timescales of 2-10y
@CrystallineBox I mean maybe this is just in comparison to north america :P ...I didn't take the trains elsewhere in europe the experience of going from the luton airport to whereever I needed on the tube or overground rail was pretty tight
Replying to @Vivitek156
@Vivitek156 it's a reference to "a lie will travel halfway around the world before the truth has gotten its pants on", a quote of unknown origin I don't think "joy" is quite the right thing to go there but I settled on it rather than delay tweeting
@Sassafrassalass @TylerAlterman I'm into this
@ilex_ulmus @robbensinger @RatOrthodox no, the forcing function is evolutionary attractors that create stable points in memespace by consistently traumatizing their hosts into fragmented modes of consciousness so they propagate memes unthinkingly rather than intentionally (from David Deutsch)
@AnnaWSalamon mmm, yeah, not naively. one guess would be that something like layering is going on—in order to manage repeated gaps between truth and what-can-be-comfortably-allowed-to-be-so, the person builds up more defenses over time and more places they can't look
@AnnaWSalamon in other words, sort of this dynamic, except without a live external authority, just an internalized worldview that precludes various things:
@joshwhitkin @TylerAlterman interesting very different from my focus which is on culture change itself, not software. but yeah ultimately there might be some software to design with that in mind
@hyponymous maybe? what Hegel thing does it sound like a remix of? I haven't consumed any Hegel directly, but iirc McGilchrist cites him a bunch
@rasoolr @hopkinsjeff @davemorrisisa I'm vaguely curious but so far I don't feel like I remotely grok what this is trying to do
@AskJibran I mean much of my blog is about this in one way or another. here's the latest post, for instance malcolmocean.com/2022/06/what-i…
Retweeted @IaimforGOAT
Twitter is like when u are in the street and see someone who smiles back at you so you put your hand in their face and the…
Retweeted @visakanv
there's a tricky thing that happens where someone friendly comes along and asks for feedback on something and the only honest…
@CXGonzalez My barnraising concept (2.5 run so far) and the specific project usespacetime.com
SpaceTime is now live! me & @ricvolpe & @BlackForestBoi (mostly them tbh!) built this tool to answer 2 questions: "Where will my friends be over the next few months?" "Which of my friends are in this city today?" try it out & tell us what you think! usespacetime.com
tired: poi wired: dongle (me prototyping a new kind of flowtoy)
are we goodharting? how would we know if we were goodharting? how can we measure the extent to which we're goodharting? how can we optimize for as little goodharting as possible? how can we ensure that our goodhart-minimization doesn't goodhart?
Thread · Recursive koans about rules, decisions, and meta-negotiation · 1 of 15 tweets
@visakanv next tatt?
followollowers
@RhysLindmark followollowers
@garybasin I'm going wild camping in scotland tomorrow and I might aim for as close to this as I reasonably can
@garybasin ...this is surprisingly easy yet surprisingly hard.
@HiNaryan @ricvolpe @BlackForestBoi Yesssss share it in your networks!
Retweeted @ragbonehair
Often when you see people pulling "pranks" they're just being mean. This is perfect genuine prank execution. https://t.co/…
@vaughn_tan mmm, I like what you're gesturing at here, and, somewhat in the spirit of the piece, I feel like the thread could benefit from a couple of examples of the kinds of situations in which you're imagining this advice applies! (and maybe how)
@vaughn_tan what's the value of groups instead of 1:1? I'm imagining something like it allows people to build on each other's perspectives
@vaughn_tan sort of like when I'm in a group and someone does something weird and I'm like "do I say something?" then I catch someone's eye and see they're thinking the same thing, and that emboldens me to point it out because now I'm doing so on behalf of both of us
wow I fucking love this twitter.com/TheeFerringer/…
@AskYatharth @ChasingMyself whoa, @Morphenius, check this out
whoa cool just heard about The Art of Game Design: The Book of Lenses from @RobertHaisfield it's got 100 of these? I feel like many could be applied to things that aren't obviously games
@AskYatharth @ChasingMyself @Morphenius (in case it's not clear, the reason I tagged you is that this stuff is related to consciousness, perspective-taking, and co-consciousness)
Retweeted @warrenmansell
Rubber Band Demo In one tweet, all you need to - challenge observers’ perspective on behaviour - explain control - refu…
@m_ashcroft kind of just by gently asking my "am I safe?" sense to perform another check like not aggressively overriding it, but just getting it to run more thoroughly
@sensefulronin @TylerAlterman @NakadeRyan @StrangelEdweird here's another reference to Starman centerforinquiry.org/blog/how-to-st…
Retweeted @OperationMoksha
I define shadow work as anything that allows you to become aware of your subconscious or unconscious material. Things…
a self-fulfilling belief that twitter can be a place for conversations & connection
Thread · How 'these parts of twitter' splinters into sub-scenes as it grows · 8 of 13 tweets
there is no single "this part of twitter" there never totally was but there's even less of one now however! there are THESE PARTS of twitter fluid, overlapping, playfully aiming towards earnestness, self-honesty, intentional cultural norms, & figuring out sovereignty
the main thing, from my perspective, is a self-awareness that we're creating the culture ourselves on here, and so we can make it serve us rather than just complaining about the birdsite 🦜
we needed a dense enough pocket in order to experience that together, which for awhile meant just a few thousand people, more or less central to the whole thing, and each with a wide variety of interests and approaches
we're now reaching a point where there are enough people around these parts that we can't all know each other! this mindtown is finally becoming a proper mindcity
and this means that pockets are starting to emerge, of clusters of people with different variations on roughly the same underlying cultural platform my pocket, ish:
this is healthy & good we can grow even bigger we can iterate and experiment with various things we can create sub-scenes within the meta-scene, with different emphases and we can recognize each other from across this virtual giant room, by our earnestness and good reply game
and it's also sad! it's not unlike the end of high school, when many people go off to different cities and unis and certain situational friends become more distant acquaintances
ultimately, it's also simply inevitable scenes are constantly evolving, growing, splitting, and so on what we can aim for is to do so amicably and satisfyingly
@RobertHaisfield @RhysLindmark goddamn syntactical ambiguity 😆 heard about it from Rob Rob didn't write it
one of the utterly fucking magical things about twitter, compared to something like facebook, is how it facilitates open scenes there's no group to join there's no admins there's no rules "these parts of twitter" is an observation of a phenomenon naturally in motion
Thread · How 'these parts of twitter' splinters into sub-scenes as it grows · 1 of 13 tweets
@gptbrooke there's room for it all in part because there is no single boundary! so there's really no single "this part of twitter" there's just these parts of twitter
in some sense, all you have to do to be from these parts is to come and follow the locals and interact but there's also a local culture, and if you don't manage to sync with it, people will realize "he's not from these parts" 🤠
@ElodesNL imagine the first *peoples* who ever sung, and it's a whole different beast meltingasphalt.com/music-in-human…
Thread · How 'these parts of twitter' splinters into sub-scenes as it grows · 1 of 13 tweets
great thread with some related and more graph-theoretical reflections
Retweeted @malaphorician
If light moved at the speed of sound, everyone would be a perspectivist
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Words are yours to freely define as you need in order to describe what you think or feel, with the social constraint tha…
@malaphorician wow this would be so trippy you'd get substantial redshift & blueshift just driving down the highway, maybe even just from running relatedly, have you played velocity raptor? testtubegames.com/velocityraptor…
@DrYohanJohn yeah it turns out that in actual language, cognition, meaning-making, negation isn't quite so simple and thus the law of the excluded middle basically never holds outside logic
pretty good search results for this snowclone of Rousseau: twitter.com/search?q=%22ma…
@owlsarepurple just tattoo a lil home above your heart your body already has a referent for "where the heart is"
expired: strawmanning tired: steelmanning inspired: starmanning centerforinquiry.org/blog/how-to-st…
"What does not overwhelm me makes me stronger"
the law of the excluded middle basically never holds outside of formal logic systems
bayes' theorem gives you the correct outcome for any situations where you have a perfect ontological mapping, which is never
@vaughn_tan > hearing feedback relevant to you, even when that feedback is not specifically intended for you. ooh nice, yup
@vaughn_tan nice. it also sounds like the sort of situation where you don't even quite need critique-level feedback merely having people say the obvious from their own perspective will shine a lot of light on things
@vaughn_tan nice. especially if the conversation highlights what's effective about some feedback and ineffective about other feedback meta-feedback
@vaughn_tan ooh nice, yeah my app complice.co has an unusual interface & onboarding and literally some people are like "this is the best onboarding I've ever seen" and others are like "this onboarding is offensive wtf" and by default neither notices the other group exists
@eshear @m_ashcroft Exactly. You don't so much want to cultivate a felt sense of safety as you want to cultivate a calibrated and attuned sense of how-safe-you-are. Then you will naturally feel safe when that's appropriate, and not when not.
@eshear @m_ashcroft ...maybe with a bit of lag! a few days ago I got back to my place after walking through some foreign streets where someone shouted aggressively (at me, I think) and I noticed I was kinda shaking when I got in the door. "I feel scared" I said, and it resonated, tho I was now safe.
Retweeted @eshear
The case of the missing button 💬♻️❤️🤡
@eshear Yeah, such a shame that at the moment the only way to hit that 4th button is to ignore the tweet. It's so unsatisfying! And only works via negative space, not actual direct dampening. +100 to your recommendation—dampen for my followers
@bolu @eshear Welcome Bo :) What sorts of people are you looking to connect with on here? Or what kinds of interactions are you hoping to have?
@bolu ahh this is a really neat point. I suppose as individuals we often need to switch between these two hats as well like "do I want to do this?" ...yeah, given no opportunity cost but okay, "do I want to do this, given everything else?" hmmm maybe not actually
@DrYohanJohn decided to make this a top-level tweet
@metaphorician @malaphorician whoaaaaaaa
@EthanJKemp the classic is the double "not", which absolutely doesn't just cancel out in ordinary usage of english is it raining? well no but it's not *not* raining
@wholebodyprayer I used to be addicted to being almost but not quite but right on the cusp of arriving at finally being essentially there and then that got really exhausting so now I be here instead
@liminal_warmth but your tweets/threads may be used elsewhere, leaving gaping holes when removed:
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@wholebodyprayer I used to be addicted to being almost but not quite but right on the cusp of arriving at finally being…
@smallkewlhuman Here's my not particularly useful take
Replying to @abhayance
@abhayance Haven't noticed much myself
Retweeted @etiennefd
Prompt engineering for humans: Add "if I had to explain it better" and watch as you actually explain better. Add "tl;dr" a…
@ambimorph @liminal_warmth @networklostsoul @visakanv I enjoyed reading this
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
standing up for what you believe in should look and feel beautiful (19/n)
TPOT* is dead, long live TPOT** *this part of twitter **these parts of twitter
Retweeted @meditationstuff
As best I can tell, I sort of think that "regret" is just a signal that there's relevant learning left to be mined fro…
Why did this need to be reified?
@BlackForestBoi Yikes. Obscene. Fiduciary duty for FB when
@mechanical_monk yeah true I have both terms muted 😅 I believe in "this part of twitter" as a deictic (locally-indexed) remark I don't believe in "tpot" as anything other than shorthand for that people are treating tpot as a *thing* and this is going to cause confusion & pain
@owlsarepurple could just tattoo the home on your boob 🤷♀️ that would have its own symbology
Replying to @Clo__S
@Clo__S @azlenelza yeah I think "empowering the user" is very different from "creating the right set of constraints to allow the user to relax" like Complice has a bunch of constraints that enable new workflows by blocking others, which is sort of the opposite of flexibility on some dimensions
@meekaale yessssssss gradually we shall meme this into existence (which might eventually involve some of us participating in designing and building it)
@EyalShay2 yeah potentially, shoot me a demo
@BlackForestBoi true, there's Latest & realtwitter.com, but it would be nice to have a bit of algo-y stuff but still respecting that likes ARE NOT retweets and shouldn't empower a tweet to get on my timeline in the first place
@bolu @eshear exactly, sounds great! I find some of my best & easiest writing the last few years has emerged in response to other people, as replies or QTs, which is another way twitter can facilitate thinking
@Evolving_Ego nah, that's sort of the trivial case the more general reason it breaks down is that people assume "if we disagree, at least one of us must be wrong" (implicit LEM) whereas usually it's more accurate to say we're just looking from different angles
@jackinlondon @liminal_warmth true tho rare also destroying all of someone's past tweets when they get suspended/banned is bad and we shouldn't do it (except in cases where the account is literally just spamming the same message or whatever, or maaaybe in certain other egregious cases)
@jackinlondon @liminal_warmth I almost edited "we shouldn't do it" to "twitter shouldn't do it" but I'm kinda trying to take responsibility a lil for twitter's governance as a medium of the commons likewise "we shouldn't pass law X" vs "the government shouldn't pass law X"
@brandontoner don't use the mobile app, use mobile web where you can open multiple tabs at once so you can actually go find tweets to QT
@mechanical_monk yep gotta let terms die
Eigen's role in strangely earnest twitter is to pentest people's earnestness by providing a learning environment with situations where the best earnest response is to get the joke, laugh, and move on twitter.com/eigenrobot/sta…
talkaboutability = "can everything that's relevant actually get talked about to everyone's satisfaction?" = one of the most important dimensions of any culture
@vaughn_tan for sure I've been thinking a lot about team culture and my sense is— welp, this became its own tweet:
@sVeritasium yup it's a trippy paradox
learning to listen to myself is such a wild ride
made a meal had last bite in my mouth small but notable disgust response 🤢 "I don't wanna swallow this" ...just too much dense rich dry food, not enough water? spat (well, gently deposited) it back out onto my plate drank some water feeling better!
I'm sharing this because I think having examples of how even people who are relatively successful & healthy often still have strong habits of overriding basic bodily instincts & urges, and that it can be a meaningful accomplishment to find another more integrative path
Retweeted @JayMutzafi
Any truth seeking machine that is paid per clicks will become a click seeking machine. It’s the famous payperclick maximiz…
Retweeted @captain_mrs
YPOTINMPOTBYPOTIOK
"he did something wrong" "no, you're scapegoating him" "no, *you're* trying to scapegoat *me*, by claiming I'm scapegoating him" "no, you're doing that to *me*, by claiming my calling out your scapegoating is scapegoating" ×∞ ×∞
Thread · Recursive koans about rules, decisions, and meta-negotiation · 1 of 15 tweets
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 37 - arguably dancing, arguably demoing a new product idea I legit think this would be fun and you could get good at it. not sure what optimal structure for it would be
@stephlepp Ooooh, this is very cool. Dovetails with something I'd been thinking about which is how to create an offramp or series of offramps for different extreme viewpoints. Your thread here seems like a starting point for a manual on how to do that.
Thread · Onboarding pathways from fear and anger into connection · 1 of 8 tweets
this thread collects a bunch of stories along the lines of conspiracy deconversions and other shifts from extreme ideologies of various kinds to greater openness and uncertainty, and has some principles around that
old houses are hilarious the bathroom door here latches in the morning but not in the evening based on my experiences of windows in different seasons, I'm guessing it's a temperature thing
if I were to visit Berlin for the first week of August ish, anybody who'd be happy to host me to stay at their place? (haven't yet decided and there are several factors, of which whether I'm paying for a hotel is one)
nobody wants a downward spiral they just want to be somewhere else on the downward spiral
for a decade, I've had a maxim "pain and harm aren't the same thing" (and confusingly, we use the word "hurt" for both) I'd add the following now though: "pain you don't understand tends to be [psychologically] harmful"
(also harm is inevitable, and can heal; the correct amount of harm is not zero) ((but also harm is often bad and if avoiding it seems like the thing to do that's probably the thing to do)) ...I feel like @meditationstuff
@nosilverv I loved your April 1st flip a couple years ago. You've continually expanded my sense of what's possible for identity.
@visakanv I am impressed that you manage to forget this in the meantime. Something intriguing there.
If man was given speech to disguise his thoughts, he was given gesture to reveal them.
(Source: Iain McGilchrist, from memory, who is remixing Talleyrand who said the first half: "Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.")
I've long wondered... why is University always an Avenue?
@visakanv From McGilchrist:
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin @utotranslucence I have *got* to assume this passage or some related one was somehow involved in your latest song. 🎶 Honey fill my mouth 🎶 Blade slice me open 🎶 Blood stay on the tip of my tongue soundcloud.app.goo.gl/hGniy
@AmandaAskell Oof, I resonate with the sentiment but it sounds like a downward spiral waiting to happen.
Replying to @altkhirashi
@altkhirashi The solution is to have ways to post without seeing the TL first. For android, I use an IFTTT widget:
@altkhirashi For my computer, this userstyle which makes a page from which I can only tweet:
@visakanv @m_ashcroft Thought of this and then thought fuck it would be cool to write a song about this
@aleksil79 presumably whatever gave man his traits—call it god, call it biological evolution, call it cultural evolution his fellow men? himself? idk!
I can feel a new existential crisis on the horizon and I'm... weirdly excited about this one. I sorta feel like I know how to surf them now, and I know how beautiful it is to come through them, and this one feels less urgent & strained than the past few.
so here for this
@Meaningness we've known for years that vitamin D supplements don't do anything?!? nobody told me this ahh, with this caveat:
@Meaningness I have heard that ideal vitamin C levels are above the amount needed to prevent scurvy (which is around what the RDA is) ...wonder if that's also false...
if you make any money at all, it's worth paying for YouTube premium to not get blasted by ads (assuming you use YT) the app still hijacks your attention unfortunately, even tho that's not extra profitable with no ads 🙄 this link gets you 3mo free: youtube.com/premium?cc=r3k…
Retweeted @AnneSelke
Quarterly reminder that YOU ARE NOT A HOTEL LOBBY. The purpose of your existence is not to be pleasantly forgettable. You a…
Retweeted @TylerAlterman
Friends! Anne-Lorraine Selke & I are searching for an apartment in the BRUTAL market of Berlin. Pls help us by sharing o…
@TylerAlterman Loved the old versions of you. Fucking nailed it.
...better not to start, but if you do... better to finish 😉
@alifeofmovement uhhh, attracted in the narrow & specific sense of like, drawn towards them, yeah
@Meaningness what else is in this book and would I want to read it if I'm into Entering the Heart of the Sun and Moon?
@utotranslucence also 1 & 7 for sure and can't say I've always stayed clear of 2 as for 8, welp 😂
Retweeted @phallusoraptors
Brothers! Heed my words: You must choose what compels you. We don't get to choose WHAT compels us,we choose to say Yes…
looks like this Kayak Nomad feature maybe does something similar... you put in where you want to visit and when, and it comes up with the best dates & orderings nomad.kayak.com/us/nomad/
@AskYatharth and information tho also "right thing" is underdefined; they'll do what's right for themselves... finding win-wins is another whole puzzle. hm
Replying to @QueerasaurusLex
@QueerasaurusLex @angelasw Latest Tweets does this, or failing that realtwitter.com
@relic_radiation I knew someone trying to start a dental company like that. Idk how it went.
@_StevenFan I'm here to have conversations
@kylebrastrom selzukte (in lojban) harder in english but I'd go with: intentionality
@phillfarrugia @angelasw Yeah, algorithmic prioritizing is useful at times, but please revert whatever change turned the like button into another retweet button. If it's not tweeted or RT'd by someone I follow, I shouldn't see it! Also properly add the attenuate button
come do pomodoros with me complice.co/room/general
@njventurino us cocky bastards don't want you to know about our superpower
@njventurino (not actually; a felt sense of superiority gets in the way of listening and group synergy and stuff... not actually particularly recommended. but also don't try to get rid of it by layering something over top, like I did)
Retweeted @captain_mrs
if your vision of utopia doesn't have fast error correcting feedback loops it isn't utopia
@captain_mrs this song reliably gets me crying about global infrastructure youtu.be/0RCIdOp5GHg
suddenly occurred to me to wonder why my grandfather isn't rich... ...he co-founded a manufacturing company that grew to like 100 people, then sold it. (He does have absurd quantities of social capital in our town of 1200 ppl, tho not all directly from that.)
@MasterTimBlais Nah I feel like it's straight up worth distinguishing these and most people fail to internally not just verbally, and it's a major error that makes coordination harder.
@brunowinck cool, I'll be here the next couple hours! pomos start at the top & bottom of the hour
Retweeted @aleksil79
Have you tried spending years chipping away at the problem?
Retweeted @BretQuotes
@TylerAlterman what software did you use for this, actually?
@BlackForestBoi I have no idea! that's part of what I'm realizing. I've heard stories about his management style, but not much about the biz. he was tech guy, not biz guy the home furnace / oil tank industry may have been on a downswing at the time (I think this was in the 90s? idk)
@grantadever I mean he's had a pretty comfortable retirement, but my grandparents have been candid enough about their financial situation with me that I know they aren't sitting on a million dollars or something no, the social clout came from a lot of favors—fixing things around town
@colluraj ofc!
@QiaochuYuan liiiikewiiiiise the fast-tempo thing seems closely related to high-involvement convo style (common among jews, 🇨🇦-maritimers (like myself) and australians) and it's cool but has limitations
@QiaochuYuan I've also noticed, in myself, as I've learned how to have slower-tempo convos, that I *also* have slow thoughts that I can't think, let alone speak, when the convo is moving really fast
@kaisoapbox @micro_solid @visakanv I didn't coin it, it's been around, but I'm fairly responsible for popularizing it around here I guess
@TylerAlterman oh I meant for the aging effect, although also cool to have the comicky link
@billymoose does that work for mobile youtube?
......fwiw I also use adblockers (brave browser + ublock origin) but this also works on mobile which is nice
Replying to @Lynoure
@Lynoure ...tru.
I now have flights! Glasgow🏴✈🇩🇪Berlin Aug 2 Berlin🇩🇪✈🇮🇩Bali Aug 7-8 Bali🇮🇩✈🇸🇬Singapore Sept 3 (not yet booked) Singapore🇸🇬→🇨🇦Vancouver ~Sept 6 Vancouver🇨🇦→🇨🇦Halifax ~Sept 9
@etiennefd huh, I could plausibly invite some friends to a family cottage in Nova Scotia... 🤔
localization is great but I'm getting annoyed at seeing berlin hotel prices in £ just because I'm looking at them from the UK like, I am gonna pay them Euros from an account denominated in C$, plz ignore my current IP address thx
@nobu_hibiki there's the jazz standards and so on and then there's also just like... the spirit of improv for that, I'd recommend Victor Wooten's audiobook
@nobu_hibiki contact improv great, as others suggested gaga may also be good for what you're looking for
@deanbmusic whoa, this is very cool!
@ReneeSolana @_inju @PranavMutatkar @paulodhran @huggingpuppy @amirhhz @ungatedcreative @imperialauditor @julesinbloom_ @jicapal @Luminous_Air @coladaclan @nclaurence @nickredmark @orpheaskk @relic_radiation @VividVoid_ @SoupOfToday @YouuTeee @exGenesis
@utotranslucence @sashachapin wow, what a rich remix of different themes
@visakanv @kaisoapbox @micro_solid @kevinsimler ah here's a reference to the superorganism thing in my notes on a convo *I* had with Rich last year
@Meaningness thanks! the ToC looks pretty great particularly curious to read "Nyingma and Sarma: The Old and New Schools" and "Practicing at Your Own Pace and Level"
haggis pakora
Retweeted @relic_radiation
rather than being a cutesy fun fact - is the placebo effect perhaps a clue that western medicine is using the entirely…
Retweeted @the_wilderless
One of my half-cocked opinion-theories is that we think about placebo effect precisely backwards,,, It’s not that a fa…
@relic_radiation you would quite like The Turning Point by physicist Fritjof Capra, where he writes about exactly this confusion from a complexity science point of view the organism is self-healing, and medicine's role is to *facilitate* that, not cause it. to remove barriers
@visakanv it was about your perspective on twitter as a global consciousness / the mindcity / what you've seen change over the last few years and where you think we're going
whenever I stop playing a finite game even for a moment I realize that I never stopped playing the infinite game even for a moment
dat left brain needs to learn that actually it can rest all the time unless the right brain gives it something to do
or as Tilopa put it: relax right now and rest
@relic_radiation nice! you've got a lot to work with there already!
@deevbrain "fuck me" is what arose in me when I read that sentence stem 🤣
the good news is there is no wrong option the bad news there is no right option
the nondual news is that this is the same news
@AskYatharth you're onto something here but "right thing" isn't adequate for the task
@strangestloop Having now done this a few times (only as of recently) journal about what I want and look at the options, until something becomes clear. And step zero is to give myself utter freedom to not be anywhere in particular.
@visakanv Right because it's like, way more believable that you'll write a third, even if you don't ship as much as non-mf you wants in the meantime
Retweeted @RichDecibels
I say they're missing the point which is: we can make culture into an object, a product under continuous improvement, we…
@RichDecibels Man I was already super excited to meet you in Berlin next week but now I'm extra super excited. So much for us to jam on here.
@etiennefd @visakanv Canadians = people of the village(s)
@nvpkp me too! let's jam on it here's one of my many thoughts on the topic:
Replying to @eurydicelives
@eurydicelives find what's at stake and tease that apart from the apparent content of the argument
Retweeted @_inju
❤️🔥HOLY SHIT GUYS NEW WINK COMP VID JUST DROPPED❤️🔥
@_inju Fucking amazing. Looks like I missed the cutoff 😉
I logged into twitter on my phone while travelling, to coordinate, but fuckit I am gonna log out for at least the next few days while I have a stable desk phone is too much scrolling, too slow to QT replies.
"I recommend trying to build an unshakable conviction that one has something useful to say, even when one has completely lost track of what that something might be." ift.tt/dAOCVc8
Thread · A freestyle 'I wanna' rap about letting go and thinking out loud · 26 of 27 tweets
I wanna try shooting from the hip
I just wanna let these freudians slip
I wanna tweet like it's a freestyle and I'm just treating my brain like a taco dip
I wanna find more ways to let go
I wanna trust that I know what I know
I wanna play with people and hold my integrity while I'm going with the flow
I wanna reach for something inside
I wanna make space for doubt & pride
I wanna take myself and anyone who's around and down for a wild ride
I wanna jinx something, idk what
I wanna invert some systems slut
I wanna find out what it means after—not before—I pull it all out of my butt
I wanna impress you right now
I wanna make you wonder "how?!"
I wanna say some words that'll prove that I've got my fingers all up in the dao
I wanna gently, lovingly blow your mind
I wanna team up and find what we find
I wanna discover a way for everything to happen that doesn't feel like a grind
I wanna remix a ton of old thoughts
I wanna nurture 100 tpots
I wanna point out to people that the noosphere's hyperbolic & filled with empty lots catb.org/~esr/writings/…
I wanna go really really really hard
I wanna kick it back in the backyard
I wanna finally get around to some emails from last year that are way over there in:starred ⭐️
I wanna find a way to wrap this thread
I wanna do something else with my head
Thread · Nothing-to-do meditation: allowing myself to die in this moment · 1 of 19 tweets
nothing-to-do meditation aka "allow myself to die in this moment" I've been experimenting with this a bit over the last few years, and moreso the last week, and finding it quite potent. idk what the deal is exactly but here are some thoughts
Thread · A freestyle 'I wanna' rap about letting go and thinking out loud · 1 of 27 tweets
I wanna tell yall about a meditation I invented where I let go as if I were dead:
Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest. by Tilopa (translated by Ken McLeod)
Thread · Nothing-to-do meditation: allowing myself to die in this moment · 4 of 19 tweets
this first happened to me spontaneously when I went for a short walk without my phone after a really long & challenging day that had culminated with me sending some important messages I had the sense of "I've done what I need to do, I can rest now. it's in their/god's hands"
the experience of resting & letting go was so profound I started crying & gasping. 🥹😭 it was as if I'd never had *nothing* on my plate before, and suddenly I did, and I was so free.
my experience of that moment resonates a lot with Tilopa's famous 6 words (though I forget when I made that connection)
as far as an intentional meditation instruction goes, well, intention is weird when it comes to letting go, right? that's part of the whole puzzle but weirdly, I've found that the word that points most directly at it for me is "die"—just "I'm going to die now"
sometimes things need to be said even though they feel like they really really should go without saying
Thread · Nothing-to-do meditation: allowing myself to die in this moment · 2 of 19 tweets
this caveat should go without saying, but: the intention I am pointing at is completely unrelated to any act of *killing* "killing" takes an object—even suicide is "I kill myself" "dying" is purely first-person. it's a letting-go.
it occurs to me as I write this that if someone were actually on their deathbed at the end of a long life or a long struggle with illness, then intending to gently die might actually result in their last breath I've heard some such stories about human old-age death timing
@babarganesh ah yeah nice. there are some great alexander technique'y tweets about this but I'm having trouble finding them to thread one about "I realized that part of me was taking responsibility for making the whole universe keep going, and I could just... not do that" cc @m_ashcroft
Thread · Nothing-to-do meditation: allowing myself to die in this moment · 1 of 19 tweets
but I'm a healthy young adult with plenty of momentum to revive me moments or hours later, and in any case I'm not actually letting go of the intention to keep *breathing* hell, often I'm not letting go of the intention to keep *walking* or *dancing* when I do this die & dance
@JohnSmi47913660 thanks John btw, I recommend making a profile pic (even if it's not of your face) and changing your username to something other than the auto-generated one (here: twitter.com/settings/scree…) my first impression was like "is this a real person?"
Thread · Nothing-to-do meditation: allowing myself to die in this moment · 4 of 19 tweets
anyway, some observations: when I do this letting go, this gently dying, often within moments I notice something I'd not noticed, that I want to attend to—maybe just going pee, maybe something more like "oh right, my plan for today was X!"
personally, I'm often inclined to follow those impulses, when I do this kind of thing. they're almost the point—whatever arises after I let go is usually internally generated, rather than reactive (like scrolling twitter or whatever) just remember to die again once complete
my sense is that there's also something valuable about also exploring something like this in more of a traditional meditation container: - have a timer & bell, or a path to walk - until the end of it, when an impulse arises, gently let it go and die again
I've noticed some sort of connection that I'm not yet sure how to articulate, between this and first-person-ness. it seems that what I often want to access in meditation, which this helps with, is coming back to my own subjectivity
the mind is a funny sense organ because its loopy nature allows it to loose track of its own first-person-ness
Thread · Nothing-to-do meditation: allowing myself to die in this moment · 1 of 19 tweets
and I can readily loose my first-person-ness - thinking about something - trying to do something - recording an insight for future-me - talking to someone, taking their perspective but afaict it's possible to stay in touch with it while doing those things
@Nsousanis @NASA @TheAtlantic @AdamKinzinger occurs to me that one reason it matters might be DALL-E 3+
Thread · Nothing-to-do meditation: allowing myself to die in this moment · 4 of 19 tweets
and as far as I can tell a really important skill is staying profoundly in touch with my own perspective while also taking someone else's this is what interpersonal depth perception is made of
meanwhile I've been realizing that a lot of my design thinking over the past few years has been realigning with this letting go and being in the not-knowing space of "what now?" my thoughts on overhauling browsers / operating systems, & this new feature:
in this convo with @_brentbaum, we talk at one point about how to make that page even more conducive to this kind of utter letting go
last thing I'll say before wrapping this thread for now is that there's definitely a huge connection between gently-die meditation & [Alexander Technique, non-doing, expanding awareness,.] eg this @m_ashcroft vid might be pointing at the exact same move: youtube.com/watch?v=i7TPXx…
@babarganesh @m_ashcroft "believing in subjectivity" I guess I believe in both? like obvi the universe is there but also like, I'm here
@_inju could make an extended version...
MORE WINKS I missed being in the first wink compilation and I want to be in the 2nd send more winks to @_inju stat only takes a minute show yourself
@_inju ah fun, yes, that sounds good
@RichDecibels just one? too bad, I'm gonna break the rules youtube.com/watch?v=IxEIQQ…
@RichDecibels best live concert video of all time perhaps youtube.com/watch?v=rv4wf7…
@RichDecibels best solo out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere set of all time perhaps youtube.com/watch?v=sCNlt5…
Retweeted @nuanceexists
a perfect guide to twitter use, courtesy of the religious society of friends
@nuanceexists fucking phenomenal
@parkerdhicks my take: message truly "thee" = is it really coming from your perspective? message also "not-three" = is it also coming from a larger perspective?
the operating system needs a redesign for the reality that many—but not all!—applications live in web browser frames now shouldn't have separate native-window-management then browser-manages-tabs; this is a weird historical accident, not an intentional state of affairs
one magical thing about this, and one reason I don't use desktop slack or the native mobile twitter app is that the browser-tab approach affords having the same app open to multiple pages/states at the same time, which complex native apps usually resist
@nvpkp yeah, I'm curious! I've also been recognizing that there's something funny about the relationship between OSes & browsers
@relic_radiation yeah, I'd say fairly strong reco to check it out given that you've also got the physics background (I don't make strong book recos lightly and have a reputation for good ones)
new avatar might not keep it for long but the previous purple one is quite old and I wanted something newer
Retweeted @JohnStokvis
get on it parents
@cowtung thanks, I'll try this
@IaimforGOAT huh, can't find it in my relevant folders (which is surprising) try a reverse image search I guess
Replying to @DevinFidler
@DevinFidler @RichDecibels hmmm, makes me think that in a sense an even further movement is basically "helping the whole" although it doesn't make the same satisfying contrast as Rich's original point
@Morphenius @AskYatharth @ChasingMyself it speaks to the mechanism by which humans can superorganism/parallax like, bees have hardware for this, obvi, in their hive-mind-y ways this points at how humans have hardware for this, in multiperspectival ways
@captain_mrs based
good thread re one axis of convo dynamics
@__aphrodisiacs my masculinity grows into your negative space
twemex showed me these and I'm so tempted to just QT the first as a reply to the 2nd (cc @uberstuber)
@chercher_ai whoaaaa
@chercher_ai lower dantian?
reply with a screenshot of this tweet I wanna see what color themes & UIs yall are using (tho I wish there was way more variance on that)
a week or two ago would have been better, but probably not a bad time to re-up this thread
today I initiated, then had, an important timely convo that I was one of the only people qualified to have (but not clearly responsible for having) and it went really well feeling really fucking satisfied